If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.